Each year, the ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding research in all areas of nanoscience. Past recipients are:

2013: Bartosz Grzybowski

2012: Cees Dekker

2011: Nadrian Seeman

2010: James Fraser Stoddart

2009: Paul Alivisatos

2008: George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard, is recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Kyoto Prize, and works in biochemistry, materials science, catalysis and physical organic chemistry.